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Meaning of austere


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  austere
      adj 1: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: {austere},
             {severe}, {stark}, {stern}]
      2: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in
         aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" [syn:
         {austere}, {stern}]
      3: practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically
         ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you
         would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's
         austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence" [syn:
         {ascetic}, {ascetical}, {austere}, {spartan}]


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